The multi-marginal optimal transportation problem
Speaker:
Brendan Pass, University of Alberta
Date and Time:
Monday, November 1, 2010 - 11:10am to 12:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We consider an optimal transportation problem with more than two marginals. We use a family of semi-Riemannian metrics derived from the mixed, second order partials derivatives of the cost function to provide upper bounds on the dimension of the support of the solution.